ILO Harare Director

Philile Ntombikayise Masuku was appointed Director of the ILO Country for Zimbabwe and Namibia on 1 May 2023.

Prior to that, she held several positions including that of Deputy Head of Mission (2017-2023) in the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Eswatini in Geneva, Switzerland and had been acting Chargée d’affaires from 2020 in the same mission. From 2015-2017 Ms. Masuku was Acting Deputy Head of Mission in the Embassy of the Kingdom of Eswatini in Brussels, Belgium. She was also First Secretary for Trade, Investment and Tourism in the same Mission from 2007 -2015.

She started her career as Trade Information Analyst Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Mbabane, Eswatini.

Philile holds a Master’s in International Trade from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters' in International Studies from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and a Bachelor of Communications and International Marketing from St Andrews University in the USA.